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Or you could just not try to Social Engineer society... It rarely works anyway, and often leads to unintended consequences. Educate people about the choices a
by Alupis 6y ago
Or you could just not try to Social Engineer society...
It rarely works anyway, and often leads to unintended consequences.
Educate people about the choices and why it might be bad for them to choose one way over the other - then hands off, let the now-educated adults make their own decisions.
We can look at smoking as a good example of this. Decades of hard-core educational efforts about the negative effects have inarguably led to a massive reduction in smoking. Has it eliminated it entirely? No... but it certainly has reduced it to benign levels when compared to historical smoking.
When someone considers trying cigarettes for the first time, do they consider the costs of an addiction/habit - or do they consider the effects on their own health? The massive taxes on a pack of cigarettes has little-to-zero impact on the choice to smoke the first one...